Crisis and Coloniality At Europe''s Margins - Creating Exotic Iceland

This book provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe. Drawing on Iceland's response to its financial collapse in 2008, it sheds light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday identities and aspirations across and within Europe.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I: Before the Crash
1. The Trickster in the North: In the World of Colonizers and Colonized
2. The Colonial Exhibition in Tivoli: Racism and Colonial Others
3. The Desire to Become Modern: Forging of Icelandic Subject
4. The Big Bite: The Economic Miracle in Iceland
5. Warehouse of Cultural Scenarios: Creating the New Icelandic Character
6. Probably the Best in the World? Engaging with Iceland’s Colonial Past
Part II: After the Crash
7: The Fall from the Top of the World: The Economic Crash in 2008
8. Even McDonalds Has Left Us: The Hierarchies of Nations
9. The Iceberg Drifting in the Sea: Creating a Sense of National Identity during Times of Crisis
10. The Exceptional Island in a World of Crisis: Reimaging Iceland as Exceptional
11. All’s Well that Ends Well: The Aftermath of the Crash
List of References
Index

About the author

Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. She is the co-editor of Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World; Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region; Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond; Teaching ‘Race’ with a Gendered Edge; and Topographies of Globalization.

Summary

This book provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe. Drawing on Iceland’s response to its financial collapse in 2008, it sheds light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday identities and aspirations across and within Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Loftsdottir, Kristin Loftsdottir, Kristin (University of Iceland) Loftsdottir, Kristín Loftsdóttir
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138497603
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49760-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity; Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Iceland, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism, Tourism industry, Hospitality and service industries